José Vadi's 'Chipped: Writing From a Skateboarder's Lens' is a granular but accessible look at the practice and subculture of the sport.
José Vadi’s “Chipped: Writing From a Skateboarder’s Lens” is, literally, a collection of essays. But it’s also a map of Vadi’s personal California. From Pomona, where he was raised, to the Bay Area, where he lived until recently, “Chipped” charts the state’s urban spaces as seen from the back of a board, a network of routes traced block by block by block. Vadi’s vision of the neighborhoods is granular.
He name-drops iconic shoe and clothing brands — Emerica, Dickies, Airwalk — as well as the skate magazines, like Thrasher and Transworld Skateboarding, where he found out what the best skaters were wearing. Another facet of the broader subculture is the “skater’s lens” that the book’s subtitle promises: a sense of radical self-sufficiency, a jaundiced eye toward what constitutes “public space” and what’s allowed in it, a familiarity with pain and a coolness toward danger.
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